Constitutes the fourth part, first issue of the first Latin edition of Theodor de Bry's Great voyages, printed in fourteen parts, in Latin, German, French, and English, in Frankfurt am Main, Oppenheim, and Hanau from 1590-1644, and the Elenchus, an outline of the thirteen Latin parts, published by Matthias Merian in Frankfurt am Main in 1634

This work has been identified as the first issue of the first Latin edition of the Great voyages by Church

Imprint from colophon

The Roman numeral dates on title pages are made with backwards C's

The first issue of Latin part four can be identified by the title page proper printed with the mispelled word "prevelegio" and without the "Ad invistis Rudolphus II. Rom. imperator"; on the fully engraved title page which precedes the plates, p. [4-5], 3rd count, the word "prevelegio" has been poorly reprinted as "privelegio", with the first "e' still somewhat visible and having "Ad invistis Rudolphus II. Rom. imperator" printed beween "cive Francofurtensi anno M D XCIIII" and "Cum prevelegio S. C. Maiestat"

Latin translation, by Urbain Chauveton, of book one of: Historia del Mondo Nuovo / by Girolamo Benzoni, first printed Venice, 1565, which was first printed in Latin, Geneva, 1578, under title: Novae Novi Orbis historiae

Despite this being a translation of book one only, as is identified on p. 11, 2nd count, the running title reads: Americae liber IIII and on p. 145 the last line of text erroneously reads: "Finis libri qvarti"

Colophon reads: Impressvm Francofovti ad Moenvm, Typis Ioannis Feyrabend, impensis Theodori de Bry. Anno M. D. LXXXXIIII

This part contains the beginning of Girolamo Benzoni's Historia del Mondo Nuovo. The remainder was published in the parts V and VI. Benzoni's work was first published in Italian at Venice in 1565. It was translated into Latin by Urbain Chauveton. He also translated the work into French. De Bry has followed Chauveton's translation which was published at Geneva in 1578, and has added to it Latin translations of some of the notes which appeared in the French edition. Cf. Church

"Americae pars quarta. Sive, Insignis & admiranda historia de reperta primùm Occidentali India à Christophoro Columbo anno M CCCCXCII scripta ab Hieronymo Bezono Mediolanense, qui istic a[n]nis XIIII versatus dilige[n]ter omnia observavit. Addita ad singula ferè capita, non contemnenda scholia in quibus agitur de earum etiam gentium idololatria. Accessit praeterea illarum regionum tabula chorographica. Omnia elegantibus figuris in aes incisis expressa à Theodoro de Bry Leodiense, cive Francofurtensi anno M D XCIIII. Ad invistis Rudolphus II. Rom. imperator. Cum prevelegio S. C. Maiestat", p. [4-5], 3rd count, has fully engraved title page

Contains a double map which is bound between p. 10 and 11, 2nd count; also contains plates numbered I-XXIIII, printed on recto only, and bound following p. [4-5], 3rd count which are signed A2-4 through F1-5

Signatures: ):(⁴ (entire gathering missigned ):():() ():(1 verso blank) ):();(⁴ ():():(2 missigned ).():(2) A-Q⁴ R⁶ (R6 blank) ²A-²F⁶ (²F6 blank)

Errors in paging: p. 109, 2nd count, misnumbered 100

Fully engraved and illustrated title page; engraved head and tail pieces; initials

Arents, G. Tobacco

Church, E.D. Discovery

JCB Lib. cat., pre-1675

Alden, J.E. European Americana

John Carter Brown Library copy imperfect: double map and plates numbered I-XXIIII follow the engraved title page proper, p. [1-2], 1st count, while the prefatory material and text follow the title page intended to be bound before the plates, p. [3-4], 3rd count; plate numbered VII has letterpress text of plate badly printed and sloping downwards

John Carter Brown Library copy has both title pages, the illustration of the seven coats of arms and the six virtues, p. [3], 1st count, the illustration which is on the "Ad lectorem" page, p.[5], 1st count, the illustration on p.[7], 1st count, which accompanies the epigrams to Theodor de Bry, the double map of America, and all plates numbered I-XXIII, except for III, VII, IX, XXII, and XXIIII (which are from the second issue and have Arabic numerals engraved on the coppers), hand-colored; the plates appear both in the first state, as printed in the first and second issues of the first Latin edition, and second states, as they appear in the second Latin edition, and are identified in pencil in the upper right hand corner, as they are described by Church

Provenance of the John Carter Brown Library copy: Biblioth. Vniversit. Vindoeonensis [Library of the University of Vienna]: book stamp on verso of title page

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